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Nick started off the stream today as a normal pink undead with a greatsword and excellent taste in headwear. Nick ended the stream today with no armor on, a ghost clinging to his back, no boss souls in his inventory, and a hammer larger than his character is. I highly encourage going back and watching the VOD around the time of this clip so you can appreciate the madness that chat descended into as well.

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Not much time left to be immortalized for all time as harassing Nick in amusing ways in front of hundreds of people and enhancing his Dark Souls experience. That said, now that he has all his points in STRENGTH I'm not sure we have a chance anymore.

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One thing I've learned from DOTA that I think is applicable here is sometimes you counter a thing with the same thing. Enemy team wrecking you with invisibility? Buy a shadow blade. Enemy carry bought a rapier? Buy your own rapier. The same principle applies here. You want to beat Nick's new build? You know what to do: ALL STRENGTH NO GLOVES NO PANTS

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Also this isn't exactly the most appropriate place to post this, but I can't think of anywhere better at the moment so it'll have to do, but the phrase From Software's Jodorowsky's Dune popped into my head, and now I wish more than anything else that that was a reality.

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One thing I've learned from DOTA that I think is applicable here is sometimes you counter a thing with the same thing. Enemy team wrecking you with invisibility? Buy a shadow blade. Enemy carry bought a rapier? Buy your own rapier. The same principle applies here. You want to beat Nick's new build? You know what to do: ALL STRENGTH NO GLOVES NO PANTS

This is basically exactly how I beat him with ALMIGHTY SAGAT, though I inverted the wardrobe requirement. I'm still catching up on the streams though, just watched him beat Velstadt last night.

On 12/24/2016 at 8:51 AM, eot said:

I've also thought about From making a Dune game. They'd nail the combat and setting, I'm quite sure of that. A Japanese take on Dune would probably be strange though.

'though' makes it sound like you don't think that would be exactly what's so awesome about it

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Having been passed during the last stream, I resumed playing Dark Souls 2 after four months. When I got to the Iron Passage, I was too intimidated to try due to the madness of last week, and based on my experience with the first Smelter Demon. I decided to beat the other two bosses first and complete all other optional Iron King content. After that, it was time to fight the Smelter Demon. Knowing that I was likely to be at it for at least an hour, I decided to start listening to Idle Thumbs as I despawned the enemies of both gauntlets over the course of about half an hour. After clearing them all out, I decided to do a run for the items in the normal path before attempting the boss. In this item run, I managed to make it to the boss door having only gotten hit once. It turns out spending all that time to clear the gauntlets wasn't necessary at all. After crossing the fog barrier, I beat the Smelter Demon in one attempt and it wasn't even close.

As for the video, it probably won't be done by Jan 1st as I'd planned since I still haven't been sent the clips.

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Yeah Smelter Demon is tough but is very much a Dark Souls-ass Dark Souls fight. If you're on your game, it's possible to read his moves very effectively. Because I knew the fight so well, I first-tried the blue smelter when I encountered it.

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My prediction for the next stream is that Nick will respec again, go back to his bastard sword but have a better balance of stats than he had before, and beat the boss within the first hour or two. Then we can all get back to the good parts of the DLC (plus he'll have the Pharros Mask.)

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After some time away from the Idle Thumbs channel, I've been catching up on these streams. The number of times that Nick says he only has a couple of hours in him at the start of the 9 hour Anor Londo stretch is getting pretty funny, knowing what's to come.

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I'm mostly caught up now and like... I love Nick, but damned if watching him play Dark Souls doesn't sometimes feel like taking your friend to your favorite Chinese restaurant, watching them order the cheeseburger, then say "eh you can get a better one at In-N-Out".

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My prediction for the next stream is that Nick will respec again, go back to his bastard sword but have a better balance of stats than he had before, and beat the boss within the first hour or two. Then we can all get back to the good parts of the DLC (plus he'll have the Pharros Mask.)

If he goes back to a more moderate build, I now know first-hand just how badly drakeblood sword + dark resin destroys blue smelter... though he'd have to get souls to make that happen, since someone told him to crunch every single portable soul he has ever had.